December 1: Statistician and anti-racism campaigner Cordell Riley claims Bermuda’s stop and search laws mean every young black male is subject to being picked up by police multiple times without being arrested.December 2: Plans to sell the Coral Beach Club to its members are revealed in a letter from developer Brickman Associates, which holds a long-term lease on the property.December 2: Economy Minister Patrice Minors announces the Post Office has saved taxpayers $500,000 a year by scaling back its practice of returning incorrectly addressed mail to the sender.December 3: The Tourism Board treads traditionally controversial waters by recommending gambling should be legalised and a casino opened in Hamilton to rejuvenate the ailing tourism industry.December 5: Thousands of taxpayer dollars have been unintentionally handed out to seniors on the FutureCare health insurance programme due to a “system configuration error”, Health Minister Zane DeSilva reveals.December 5: Motorcyclist Dion Richardson, 38, of Warwick, is Bermuda’s ninth road fatality of 2011, after his vehicle strikes a roundabout in Devonshire.December 6: Marico Bassett is sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of attempted murder following the gang-related shooting of Randy Lightbourne outside the Charing Cross Tavern in Sandys in July.December 7: The Salvation Army sets itself a record $1 million fund-raising target for the fiscal year due to a soaring demand for food from needy families under pressure from the economic crisis.December 9: News breaks that Cervio Cox, jailed for seven years for his part in a triple gang shooting, has been released by the Parole Board after serving a third of his sentence without any police assessment of his threat to the community.December 9: US missionary Egbert Haywood is given an absolute discharge after being found with a .32 calibre pistol, four rounds of ammunition and an extendable baton at Bermuda’s airport, claiming he’d forgotten they were in his luggage as he made his way to a Christian mission in Chile.December 9: Auditor General Heather Matthews says she’s been unable to make some of her reports public because the Audit Committee has failed to review them during 2011.December 12: Premier Paula Cox warns Government revenues will be lower than predicted and spending higher than predicted for the fiscal year, pointing to a current account deficit of between $20 million and $30 million for 2011/12.December 14: Mrs O, a 98-year-old widow suffering from dementia and diabetes, hits the news after it emerges she’s ineligible for Financial Assistance despite having no savings and no relatives to care for her.December 14: The Fairmont Hamilton Princess announces plans to build a yacht club and add additional rooms as part of a $52 million expansion.December 14: Gunman Noet Barnett is found guilty of attempted murder after shooting former friend Jeremiah Dill when the pair got caught up in rival gangs.December 15: Jahmel Blakeney, the son of Cabinet Minister Glenn Blakeney, and Sanchey Grant are jailed for 30 years each for shooting a gang member and his pregnant girlfriend outside Southside cinema.December 16: Kevin Brown, the doctor son of former Premier Ewart Brown, is sentenced to 12 and a half years in state prison for sexually assaulting nine female patients.December 17: A 24-year-old man suffers serious back, shoulder and arms injuries when he is shot outside Gravity nightclub in Devonshire.December 20: Independent Senator Walwyn Hughes retires after 15 years in the Upper House, to be replaced by chartered accountant James Jardine.December 20: KFC is on collision course with Bermuda Industrial Union as BIU president Chris Furbert claims the restaurant has cancelled a union agreement covering 36 employees.December 21: Another shooting, this time in Southampton, as a 38-year-old man is seriously injured at an East Avenue residence.December 23: National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief claims the UK would have stepped in and provided the funds to tackle gun violence if Bermuda’s gang violence victims had been white instead of black.December 24: Mrs O’s plight is eased by generous Royal Gazette readers, who donate thousands of dollars towards her care.December 24: Landscaper Kevin Ledo, 18, dies from an electric shock after touching a live wire as he trims a garden hedge in Warwick.December 28: Five men steal $25,000 in an armed robbery at the Hitching Post in Sandys, holding a gun to the head of a security guard.